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by Oskar Källner (Author), Karl Johnsson (Illustrator)
For fans of science fiction, action and adventure stories. A coming of age tale about two siblings (female and male) who discover their mother is an alien from another planet and get caught up in an intergalactic war. Star Wars meets Harry Potter. Chapter book with full-color graphic novel illustrations.
Alice and Elias continue their outer space quest aboard the Phoenix to save their mother. They have arrived at the Imperial planet of Tenia and the crew need money to repair the ship from their previous battle. Syndra receives a mission from a relative to retrieve a stolen engram kist. But the mission won't be as easy as the crew thinks. They are soon caught up in a life-or-death struggle - with the future of the whole empire at stake. The Engram Kist is the fourth book (of 7) in the Children of the Phoenix series. A sizzling space epic filled with spectacular marvels and shadowy mysteries, blistering-pace escapades, and terrifying encounters with the unknown. The story of Alice and Elias' journey through space is simply magnificent.Author Biography
Oskar Källner is an author with a fervent devotion to all things related to science fiction. That passion was kindled when he as a young boy discovered Jules Verne and read absolutely everything by him in the city public library. Later he continued with, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke and C.J. Cherryh to mention some. Oskar has won several short story competitions and has a body of work consisting of novels, short stories and children's books. He's been published in several languages, recently in the American SF-magazine Future SF.
Karl Johnsson is a comic artist and illustrator. He has had a burning passion for genre media and art since he was a small child and has been drawing for as long as he can remember. In collaboration with author Sara B. Elfgren he has created the two-part epic fantasy comic Vei (released in the U.S. by Insight Comics 2019 & 2020), which has received praise and glowing reviews all over the world, and has been translated into several languages. He also illustrates books for children and young adults. He also works as a concept artist and a storyboard artist for film and tv.
